Wyclef Jean Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.”
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“Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.”
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“I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.”
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“You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.”
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“There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.”
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“I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.”
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“Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.”
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“When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.”
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“Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?”
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“I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.”
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“My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.”
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“When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.”
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“My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.”
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“I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.”
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“When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.”
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“I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.”
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“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”
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“When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.”
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“Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.”
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“I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.”
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“At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.”
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“Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.”
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“I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.”
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“I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.”
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“Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.”
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“I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.”
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“What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.”
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“I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.”
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“I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.”
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